The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Failure, being caught out, making an idiot of myself.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2024 source ↗
I’ve always been frightened of the dark. I sometimes wonder whether it stems from being away filming from the age of five. I can remember being devastatingly homesick and having a little nightlight I used to look at to reassure myself things were all right.
Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.
A world destroyed by science-denying mediocrity.
There’s no point living at my age with many ingrained great fears. Though I do have that dream that I walk out onto the stage nude. Does that count?
Not being a professional footballer.
Funny, impatient, annoying.
Arrogance and narcissism.
We become fertiliser.
Impatience and vanity.
Warm and embracing.
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